The September 2016 royal tour of British Columbia may temporarily boost Canadian monarchism but a recent Forum poll indicates that support for the house of Windsor is waning. Increasingly, public veneration of royal personalities resembles celebrity wordship; not unlike that bestowed upon movie stars and reality show presidential candidates.

Every time Haiti suffers a natural disaster the mainstream media reflexively laments the political corruption blocking Western aid to the island’s sick and injured. Unfortunately, dominant commentary on Haiti, a former “slave republic”, lacks depth and historical context.

Like many older Israelis, Shimon Peres was a Polish national who immigrated to the new Jewish colony underway in Palestine. While European anti-Semitism was a major factor in the mass Jewish exit from Poland; the Zionist enterprise was active long before Hitler’s birth and the eventual rise of Nazism.